My sister-in-law claims to not have a crafty bone in her body, so when her son wanted a How to Train Your Dragon birthday party, she turned to her mom for help with the games. The movie focused on two things - how to fight dragons, and how to befriend dragons. With this in mind, my mom-in-law came up with two games.
The first game was a bean bag toss. My mom in law is quite good at painting, so she took the side of a refrigerator box and painted a three-headed dragon. After cutting out the dragon's mouths, she then sewed bean bags into the shape of fish. At the party, the kids did their best to feed the dragon by tossing the fish into his mouths.
As an added bonus, the dragon's mouths turned out to be a pretty good photo prop as well:
Now surely you're seeing those nifty shields and wondering what that's all about. My mom-in-law cut all those shields from cardboard, gave them a faux wood paint treatment, and gave them to the kids so they could defend themselves in the next game. The dragon, played by one of the adults, hurled fireballs made of red and yellow satin tied around balled up newspaper at the kids, and they had to use their shields not to get hit. We played this game several times.
The kids really loved this one, and at the end, they all rushed the dangerous dragon to slay him!
As part of their training, our young vikings also tested their strength in tug of war. This was a game that was specifically requested by the birthday boy.
Then it was time to feast and have cake. My mom-in-law had a plan for that too. She made signs and came up with clever names to turn party food into HTTYD themed food. We had Dragon Egg grapes, Dragon Scale doritos, Dragon Wings chicken wings, and Dragon Teeth bugles.
The cake was also quite lovely because of a HTTYD edible cake decal my sister-in-law applied.
As favors, each child got a viking helmet, the shield mom-in-law made for them, and several HTTYD coloring pages that were found free on the internet. It was a great party!
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